On Ter, 10 Nov 2015, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
i am riddling about the size of directories in Jessie's ext4,
as listed with ls -ld. They always grow and never shrink, even
if they become completely empty.
Is this a known property of ext4 directories ?
Yes, and also of its predecessors ext2 and ext3.
If so: Are there other means to shrink them except rmdir ?
There's the -D option for fsck that optimizes directories, this should
make them return to the smallest size, but the filesystem must be
unmounted.
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